7 people in military history who were the hardest to kill

When Prince Felix Yussupov went to murder Russia's "mad monk" and advisor to the last Tsar, he wanted to make sure the job was done. He wrote that he had poisoned Rasputin's wine with cyanide. When that didn't do the trick, he then shot the monk at least six times. Refusing to die, he was then beaten, stabbed, and, finally, his body was tossed in a freezing river.

Take a hint, bro.

If Russia had an army of Rasputin-like unkillable Hulkamaniacs, they could have poured over the German lines and ended World War I in a hurry.

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They didn't, but there were other nations who grew their own tough-as-nails hardasses who did join the military.

7. Adolf Hitler

People were trying to kill this guy well before he ever kicked off World War II. On the Western front of World War I, Hitler was hit by a British mustard gas attack near Ypres in 1918. Then, he admitted to stumbling in front of a British sharpshooter, who allegedly saved his life.

6. George Washington

Washington's invincibility must have really come from a cheat code because this dude didn't even get hit. During the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela, Washington rode ahead against a French onslaught to boost the resolve of his collapsing lines. As he did, his horse was shot out from under him. When he remounted to resume command, that horse was shot, too.

Pictured: George Washington at the Battle of Monongahela, 1755 (colorized).

As if twice surviving horrific possible injuries like the one that crippled Superman wasn't enough, he also found four bullet holes in his coat after the battle.

5. Gabriel Garcia Moreno

Moreno was the President of Ecuador in the middle of the 19th century. Although elected, he ruled like a dictator, launching religious and scientific reforms that earned him some enemies. After being elected to a third term as president, those enemies took action.

As he left a cathedral in Quito, they hacked off an arm, a hand, parts of his brain and skull, and embedded a machete in his neck – and when they were done, he was still standing.

"You swing a machete like a Colombian schoolgirl!"

Eventually, someone decided to unload a revolver into him. After he finally fell, he gave his last words. Some say he spoke them, others say he used his dying breath to scrawl it on the ground in his own blood. The message was clear: "God does not die."

4. Steven Toboz

Petty Officer Toboz is a Navy SEAL who went in search of a missing U.S. troop in Afghanistan with about two dozen others. Toboz and 11 more were injured, six were killed. The first bullet Toboz took hit him in the right calf, which shattered his ankle and foot. He refused pain-numbing drugs so he could stay sharp and support everyone until they were extracted.

Once he was in a hospital, doctors had to give him three liters of blood to replace what he had lost. And when he realized he would heal faster if doctors amputated his leg, he ordered them to do it.

To top it all off, once he was healed, he went back to Afghanistan with an advanced prosthetic. Why? Because "Neal Roberts was my closest friend." These days, he trains SEALs.

Oh yeah, he also competes in the Warrior Games.

3. Charlie Beckwith

What do the North Koreans, Chinese, North Vietnamese, Russians, Leptospirosis, Iranians, an exploding C-130, and a .50-cal bullet to the stomach have in common?

2. Blackbeard

The British Navy hunted Edward Teach, a pirate known as "Blackbeard," who had a freaking fleet and 200 men under his command. He was known to light his beard on fire in combat to intimidate his enemies. But by the time he was cornered near Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, he was down to one ship and a handful of men.

Robert Maynard, the British commander, broke his sword off in Blackbeard. It wasn't until they cut his freaking head off that Teach finally stopped pirating.

1. Josip Tito

Tito began his epic survival story as a partisan against the Nazis in World War II. When the war ended, he came out on top, and he would rule Yugoslavia until his death... but when would that be? Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wanted it to be sooner rather than later.

And if Stalin wanted someone dead, they usually ended up that way.

Just go ahead and ax Leon Trotsky.

Stalin sent so many assassins to kill Tito that he had to write a letter telling him to stop. It read,

"Stop sending assassins to murder me… if this doesn't stop, I will send a man to Moscow and there'll be no need to send a second."

*laughs in Communist*

Just a few years later, Stalin died of a sudden, massive heart attack. Tito lived on for almost thirty more years.